Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f07fa90689830f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 08:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ec98dc0bb11d25dde67278be6b360e30 SHA-1: b800baf91e712b5360f7b787d4746df271732d7e SHA-256: a6f07fa90689830f42bdd3e667341b56a21e8a9637f8a0655f4efdbc5eed5ef6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/175261fab6240f378654f99a97a27b1d/regefikux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bbdfaba25---51657951703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/21652273699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/nuwatogavedavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpntraffic.com/upload/files/mekeserazipiwewojive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/fuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/884ea168044c4e38233d8d323bc6abac/28753377346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nlb9ha5bc55g4d4ppk0mumkq1/62227020655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/bexijegejabekikefiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4212f4708fd368d4235585ad4e05842/xodelanojakosazimotewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/62467759188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griswoldremgmt.com/uploads/files/24832967365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fb76106b3376f53b4a22027e4e10cde/videp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/ronusafilinugezadidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/4185016230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210601175139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/ridajumalufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56b8d16631---58126344954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecapsuledigian.it/file/71714121749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90866b4bfa---lososuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/29612920166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c9f19956bf86da6550b19bfd3709c6/lajezunatibugofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c14accb243a33c2ed09e742af590d64/fisozeperewosexegokebenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=suma+de+fracciones+1%2F2+%2B+3%2F4+%2B+5%2F8PDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C9 11468 bytes
SHA-256: e3bed03ad0106da484deec96c6c30ac38a84730f964d08624321e9e5274b1e10
font_01_sfnt_off00011c0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001341d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1341D 18964 bytes
SHA-256: 6bae358dd3aebfbb51768af6847b0b70067f4ff881aea50be78bd69d447524a4